S.C. Chandrahasan
FounderFounder of OfERR (Organisation for Eelam Refugees' Rehabilitation)
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S.C. Chandrahasan is the founder of OfERR (Organisation for Eelam Refugees' Rehabilitation) (1984)[1], an Indian non-profit working on human rights, education and healthcare from Chennai.
OfERR (Organisation for Eelam Refugees' Rehabilitation)
OfERR is a refugee-run humanitarian organisation supporting Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in camps across Tamil Nadu, providing education, vocational training, healthcare and advocacy for those displaced by decades of conflict in Sri Lanka.
OfERR (Organisation for Eelam Refugees' Rehabilitation) reports the following, on its own site:
- Providing services to 1 lakh refugees since 1984
- 10k women made financially independent through self help groups
- 5L shoes distributed to underprivileged children
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Chennai
- Founded
- 1984
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “In the words of OfERR's Founder and Chief Functionary S.C. Chandrahasan , a lawyer, human rights activist and son of the highly regarded political leader Late S.J.V Chelvanayakam (also known as the Mahatma Gandhi of Sri Lanka)” — OfERR (Organisation for Eelam Refugees' Rehabilitation). Source
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